Equipment heading to Spring Training; players to follow

This weekend saw many teams ship equipment to Arizona and Florida in anticipation of spring training — including the Boston Red Sox, who celebrated Truck Day on Saturday.

The Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers have already reported to spring training, but they’re the outliers: they need to cram in a regular-length spring training in a truncated schedule, as the two teams begin the regular season on March 22-23 in Sydney, Australia. The other MLB teams all report this week — see here for a schedule — and so they need equipment shipped from home bases. The Boston Red Sox turned this into a commercial success, launching Truck Day and signing JetBlue as a sponsor.